Teachers defend shock tactics in DWI program

AP/Houston Chronicle ^ | 6-12-08

[Hegemony Cricket]

Not cool.

[Polybius]

Is there a lawyer in the house?! Is there a lawyer in the house?!

[SampleMan]

I’m sure the teachers wouldn’t mind if a student told them that another teacher had been killed in order to really stress the moment.

[Dilbert San Diego]

If these things had really happened, it would have been a truthful teachable moment for the students. But to make it all up, that seems wrong to do that.

[isrul]

Yep. Lying will really build credibility.

[weaponeer]

Why do we let stupid people become teachers and administrators?

[TexasCajun]

PUNKED !!

[BurbankKarl]

this program used to be that some dude dressed up like the grim reaper pulled certain popular kids out of class, and they parked a wrecked car in front of the school and had a discussion about drunk driving...

they obviously have enhanced it a bit.

[MEGoody]

Sounds like a money-making opportunity to me. Can you say lawsuit?

[mnehring]

This isn’t a new tactic. I remember something very similar to this happening at a private school I attended in high school many, many years ago.

I frankly don’t see the problem with it. It was a dramatization.

[Frank_2001]

IMO this is worth a lawsuit. These “officials “ think it’s OK to terrifye students, but hey, no Bibles in class...A student who pulled a prank like this would be facing hard time....

[The KG9 Kid]

M.A.D.D. did a theatre scene behind our high school and got the jock-clique captain of the water polo team (and student body president) to act like he'd wrecked his car and was injured while a cop pretended to go through his car and find beer cans and bottles of booze. They performed a fake arrest with handcuffs, had a smashed-up car as a prop, the water polo captain had a bandage around his head with fake blood, the whole bit.

It didn't go very well because hundreds of parking lot stoners in Iron Maiden shirts were laughing and hooting derisively yelling that they hoped his head went through the windshield, "Don't worry, his brains are in his ass", that he was a stuck-up retarded jerk anyway, and started shouting 'Don't take him alive!' to the police sergeant who blew the act when he started laughing his ass off.

The mid-80s was a different time in Southern California.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

No, a “dramatization” is putting on a school play or showing a movie about drunk driving dangers. THIS was emotional exploitation of children and it stinks.

[Verbosus]

Quote:
Not cool

I agree. That would be cruel to have someone tell you in a serious tone that a friend had died.

[metesky]

"You feel betrayed by your teachers and administrators, these people you trust," said 15-year-old Carolyn Magos.

Trust your instincts, kid. That's the real lesson here.

"But then I felt selfish for feeling that way, because, I mean, if it saves one life, it's worth it."

It only took you a heartbeat to betray yourself.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt

[donna]

This is the state proving that they own our children.

Pure ownership.

[Psycho_Bunny]

It was blatant emotional abuse and I hope the school gets sued for it.

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are run by government idiots.

[Joe 6-pack]

I note, as another FReeper did on the original thread, nobody knocked on the door of any of the cop's houses to tell their wives that their husbands had been killed in the line of duty.

Perhaps they should build that onto the scenario for next year, just to make sure the families appreciate the gravity of how risky a profession police work can be.